The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.